VHP warns of ISI conspiracy

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, JUNE 9. The Vishwa Hindu Parishad - which today blamed Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence for the almost simultaneous bomb explosions in churches in three different States yesterday - warned that the growth of the ISI network over the last three years could lead to another division of India, as in 1947. Demanding a high-level probe into the incidents, it said the findings should be made public through a ``white paper''.

Mr. Giriraj Kishore, a senior VHP leader, indicted the Government without saying it in so many words. ``There is an undeclared emergency'' in the country. ``If the Centre is unable to effectively control the situation, 1947 may be repeated again.''

At the same time, unwilling to blame the ruling politicians directly, he pointed a finger of blame at an ``untamed bureaucracy'' and ``a dark conspiracy to ensure the disintegration of India'' in which the ``ISI and the CIA were partners.'' He added that any division of Sri Lanka would pose a danger to India's territorial integrity.

Mr. Kishore was concerned that while the ISI was ``targeting Christians'' the VHP and its sister organisation, the Bajrang Dal, were being blamed. But he did not bat an eyelid when reminded that till yesterday he had dismissed attacks on Christian priests and churches as a simple ``law and order problem''.

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